This is the first of two bread recipes for winter baking. Neither are kneaded, but rather made with a stretch-and-fold motion right in the bowl. The second recipe, for focaccia, will run in this space ...

We all became obsessed with sourdough bread last spring, and it’s no wonder. What better way to channel anxiety than by pummeling bread dough and then slathering the delicious, fresh-baked results ...

James Beard said it: “Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods.” And almost no bread tastes better than a hot, crusty loaf pulled from your own oven, made by your own hands ...